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RFC 822 - A.2. ORIGINATOR ITEMS

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### A.2. ORIGINATOR ITEMS

#### A.2.1. Author-sent

George Jones logs into his host as "Jones". He sends mail himself.

                From:  Jones@Group.Org

or

                From:  George Jones <Jones@Group.Org>

#### A.2.2. Secretary-sent

George Jones logs in as Jones on his host. His secretary, who logs in as Secy sends mail for him. Replies to the mail should go to George.

                From:    George Jones <Jones@Group>
                Sender:  Secy@Other-Group

#### A.2.3. Secretary-sent, for user of shared directory

George Jones' secretary sends mail for George. Replies should go to George.

                From:     George Jones<Shared@Group.Org>
                Sender:   Secy@Other-Group

Note that there need not be a space between "Jones" and the "<", but adding a space enhances readability (as is the case in other examples.

#### A.2.4. Committee activity, with one author

George is a member of a committee. He wishes to have any replies to his message go to all committee members.

                From:     George Jones <Jones@Host.Net>
                Sender:   Jones@Host
                Reply-To: The Committee: Jones@Host.Net,
                                         Smith@Other.Org,
                                         Doe@Somewhere-Else;

Note that if George had not included himself in the enumeration of The Committee, he would not have gotten an implicit reply; the presence of the "Reply-to" field SUPERSEDES the sending of a reply to the person named in the "From" field.

#### A.2.5. Secretary acting as full agent of author

George Jones asks his secretary (Secy@Host) to send a message for him in his capacity as Group. He wants his secretary to handle all replies.

                From:     George Jones <Group@Host>
                Sender:   Secy@Host
                Reply-To: Secy@Host

#### A.2.6. Agent for user without online mailbox

A friend of George's, Sarah, is visiting. George's secretary sends some mail to a friend of Sarah in computerland. Replies should go to George, whose mailbox is Jones at Registry.

                From:     Sarah Friendly <Secy@Registry>
                Sender:   Secy-Name <Secy@Registry>
                Reply-To: Jones@Registry.

#### A.2.7. Agent for member of a committee

George's secretary sends out a message which was authored jointly by all the members of a committee. Note that the name of the committee cannot be specified, since <group> names are not permitted in the From field.

                From:   Jones@Host,
                        Smith@Other-Host,
                        Doe@Somewhere-Else
                Sender: Secy@SHost

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